1. Sikh Casualties of Indian Forces Commemorated in Italy
(Sikh History/Historical Events)

... Indep. Coy. Indian Pioneer Corps. 5th November 1944. Age 19. Son of Asa Singh and Harnam Kaur; husband of Tej Kaur, of Sarniamant Khan, Amritsar, India. Panel 23. BAHADUR SINGH, Sepoy, 16313. 3rd Royal ...

2. Aziz Ud-Din, Faqir
(Sikh History/Historical Events)

... help in the Maharaja's negotiations with him which culminated in the Treaty of Amritsar (1809). He held negotiations on behalf of the Sikh ruler with David Ochterlony in 1810. In 1813, he was deputed ...

3. Ahmad Shah Durrani - Afghan Ruler (1722-1772)
(Sikh History/Historical Events)

... the Great Carnage, the Sikhs had inflicted a severe defeat on the Afghan governor of Sirhind. Four months later they were celebrating Divali in the Harimandar (Amritsar) which the Shah had blown up by ...

4. Afghans - Afghan-Sikh relations
(Sikh History/Historical Events)

... informed Was advancing from Delhi to oppose him. On the way he had two slight skirmishes at Sarai Nur Din and at the Vairoval ferry, both in presentday Amritsar district, With a Sikh jatha or fighting ...

5. A Case-Study of the Crisis in Punjab
(Sikh History/Operation Bluestar)

... Harmander in Amritsar was blown up and thousands of men, women and children butchered.  The Sikhs fled the plains and bided their time in the Himalayan foothills.”[20] For the next fifty years, ...

6. MARTYRDOM AND THE EXECUTION OF GURU ARJAN IN EARLY SIKH SOURCES.
(Sikh Literature/Sikhism Articles)

... is challenged by both B. S. Dhillon, Early Sikh Scriptural Tradition: Myth and Reality (Amritsar: Singh Bros., 1999), and Pritam Singh, Ahiyapur Vali Pothi, vol. 1 (Amritsar: Guru Nanak Dev Univ. Press, ...

7. Jagjit Singh: The Ghazal Maestro
(Punjab/Punjabi Singers)

... compositions. Jagjit Singh has sung quite a few ghazals written by a very accomplished Punjabi lyricist, whose flair of poetry is in a class of its own.He is the talented Madanpal, an Amritsar born, ...

8. Faridkot District
(Punjab/Punjab Districts)

... after the 1809 Treaty of Amritsar. During the Sikh wars in 1845, Raja Pahar Singh aided the British, and was rewarded with an increase of territory. The state had an area of 642 square miles, and a population ...

9. Amritsar District
(Punjab/Punjab Districts)

Amritsar AMRITSAR (31°38'N, 74°53'E) (originally called Ramdaspur) literally "pool of nectar." This is now the name of a Sikh holy city located in the northern Indian state of Punjab, where the Harimandir ...

10. Bhatra or Bhattra
(Sikh Way of Life/Sects and Cults)

... are significant numbers of Sikhs with Bhatra ancestry, as there are in India. In the Punjab most Bhatra Sikhs are now in Patiala, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur or Bhathinda districts, or in Jullunder ...